Engineered human heart tissue shows researchers the mechanics of tachycardia. ... When beating normally, the heart uses fat as an energy source, but breaking down fats requires a lot of oxygen.

Researchers engineered stem cell-derived heart tissues to study how tachycardia affects the heart and to uncover the inner workings of our body’s engine.

Researchers at the Indiana University School of Medicine have discovered that cells in human fat actually may help the body grow new blood vessels to repair both muscle and heart tissue. These ...

Scientists have spotted unique subtypes of fat cells in the human body, and by unraveling their functions, they found that the cells may play a role in obesity. The research, published Jan. 24 in ...

The heart’s preference for fatty acids — building blocks of fat — makes sense from a physiological standpoint in that fat is virtually always available in the human body. Such an ample substrate is ...

Mediastinal adipose tissue is situated within the mediastinum, inside the thorax, but outside the pericardium that encloses the heart and accounts for ∼ 70% of total intra-thoracic fat. 1, 2, 3 ...

Formerly considered fat storage, adipose tissue is now recognized as a vital endocrine organ. Dysfunction in the tissue is linked to significant cardiovascular and metabolic diseases.

To develop the microengineered human heart tissue-on-a-chip, researchers begin with human induced pluripotent stem cells grown in the laboratory. Such cells are able to develop into nearly any type of ...

The small study is the first to reinfuse fat-derived stem cells into heart attack patients, he said. Duckers and his colleagues recruited 14 people who had just survived a severe heart attack.

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — The next breakthrough in anti-aging medicine might come from a surprising source: fat. But not just any fat—brown fat, a special type that burns energy rather than ...

In a study recently published in the Journal of Nature Metabolism, researchers set out to explore how exercise impacts fat tissue by comparing fat tissue under the skin of people with obesity. The ...